About CXO Unplugged

The Logicalis Global blog, CXO Unplugged, serves as an online platform for the IT community to share about industry-related topics. With so much information vying for readers’ attention on the Web today, we know that C-level executives need a source to filter out the news that affects them, and their peers, on a daily basis. Readers can expect CXO Unplugged posts to be informative, and cutting-edge, allowing the IT community to join in conversation on various topics affecting the industry.

As Logicalis heads to the Hannover Messe industrial technology show to demonstrate IoT infrastructure in actions, we look back at 13 articles about IoT. Back in 2012 we suggested CxOs start asking questions about how it might benefit their customers. Enjoy. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) – A Trillion Dollar Business One of the hottest […]

Every minute, hour and day we are generating huge volumes of data, which means ever more sophisticated and powerful tools are required to analyse it if meaningful insights are to be delivered. One such tool is machine learning – but what is machine learning? What is machine learning? In order to more efficiently spot patterns […]

As we crunch the final numbers for the 2017-18 Logicalis CIO Survey, we thought it would be interesting to look back at the Digital Transformation (DX) trends and stories we have been posting over the past 24 months. The beginning of the first digital decade Here we herald the beginning of the Digital Decade stating that the acceptance and importance […]

In the third of a nine-part series drawing on the Logicalis Global CIO study, Chris Gabriel explains why apps are central to digital transformation. The statement ‘Every company is a software company’ has been on repeat over the last few years. When it was first uttered it was more of a future-gazing, stake-in-the-ground pronouncement – and […]

With digital now shorthand for many aspects of what is becoming a mainstream movement across the spectrum of industry and the public sector, business is changing fast. The world of business, in particular, is resolving into two camps: Those with digital technology in their DNA and those threatened by digital competitors. Those with ‘digital DNA’ […]

In this post, we examine what is meant by a digital organisation. What are their common features and how does an ‘analogue’ organisation ‘go digital’? Most organisations are undergoing some form of digital transformation. That’s to be expected – 2016 is undoubtedly the dawn of the first ‘digital decade’. Given its incredible transformative potential, it’s no […]

The acceptance and importance of digital in society, government and business makes digital enablement the number one priority for CEOs for the next 10 years. In a recent survey of over 400 organisations across 24 countries, over 90% of CIOs said they were bypassed by line of business colleagues purchasing their own IT hardware, software […]